Use your background knowledge to understand the text.
Imagine what might happen next or, with an informational text, predict what you might learn or read about in the next paragraphs or pages.
Use your prior knowledge, new knowledge from the text, and the text’s structure to predict the direction of the text and the author’s intent in writing.
The Predictor can offer predictions about what the author will tell the group next.
The predictor might suggest what the next events in the story will be.
Clarifying
What words or phrases do you not understand? Use sounding out or "chunking," to work out read hard words.
Identify and then clarify unclear, difficult, or unfamiliar parts of a text.
This could include awkward sentences or passage structure, unfamiliar vocabulary, unclear references, or strange concepts.
Re-read the text or use a dictionary or thesaurus.
The Clarifier will address confusing parts and attempt to answer the questions that were just posed.
Questioning
Assess your own understanding of the text by asking questions. Think about what you have read or learnt
and use the 5Ws and H or 5 Whys.
Questioning involves the identification of information, themes and ideas.
Ask FAT or OPEN questions to explore the text more deeply.
The Questioner will pose questions about the selection:
Unclear parts
Puzzling information
Connections to other concepts already learned
Summarizing
Decide on what is the important and less-important information in the text.
Summarizing means identifying the important information, themes, and ideas in a text.
Retell the important ideas in a clear and short statement that communicates the main meaning of the text.
Summarizing may be based on a single paragraph, a section of text, or an entire passage.
The Summarizer will use his/her own words to tell the main idea of the text. This can happen anywhere in the story.
Use your background knowledge to understand the text.
Imagine what might happen next or, with an informational text, predict what you might learn or read about in the next paragraphs or pages.
Use your prior knowledge, new knowledge from the text, and the text’s structure to predict the direction of the text and the author’s intent in writing.
The Predictor can offer predictions about what the author will tell the group next.
The predictor might suggest what the next events in the story will be.
Clarifying
What words or phrases do you not understand? Use sounding out or "chunking," to work out read hard words.Identify and then clarify unclear, difficult, or unfamiliar parts of a text.
This could include awkward sentences or passage structure, unfamiliar vocabulary, unclear references, or strange concepts.
Re-read the text or use a dictionary or thesaurus.
The Clarifier will address confusing parts and attempt to answer the questions that were just posed.
Questioning
Assess your own understanding of the text by asking questions. Think about what you have read or learntand use the 5Ws and H or 5 Whys.
Questioning involves the identification of information, themes and ideas.
Ask FAT or OPEN questions to explore the text more deeply.
The Questioner will pose questions about the selection:
Summarizing
Decide on what is the important and less-important information in the text.Summarizing means identifying the important information, themes, and ideas in a text.
Retell the important ideas in a clear and short statement that communicates the main meaning of the text.
Summarizing may be based on a single paragraph, a section of text, or an entire passage.
The Summarizer will use his/her own words to tell the main idea of the text. This can happen anywhere in the story.